Does anyone have the info to contact this guy? DJE
----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: RI models Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 2:48 PM Subject: Re: [RI_models] Dual beam headlights and red/white gyralights The best gyralights I've ever seen were made by Leonard Ruback, for DC locos. His lamp control had a capacitor that "ramped up" then "flashed" and "ramped down" the intensity of the bulb -- this almost perfectly captured the way a gyralight looks when you are looking at it, because just as the lamp lines up with your line of sight you get a sudden and intense flash of light, but when the lamp points away from you it is not nearly as bright. Some engines especially RTR from Proto 2000 had terrible simulations -- basically they used two bulbs alternating on/off -- Ugh! DCC Fx decoders are better than that but none of them is as good as Leonard's. At least none that I've seen so far. Tim O'Connor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: "David Engle" <[email protected]> What is the state of the art now regarding dual-beam headlights and gyralights on model passenger engines. The cover jacket of the new "Rock Island in Minnesota" book shows best what one could wish for. In Exile, DJE
